Zhengzhou Annec Industrial Co., Ltd., located at Zhengzhou city, Henan province and adjacent to Jing-zhu Expressway and Lian-huo Expressway, is a wholly foreign-owned enterprise of a listed company Annec Green Refractories Corporation (NASDAQ: ANNC) in America. There are many world-renowned human landscapes around Zhengzhou, such as Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, hometown of Yellow Emperor in Xinzheng, Dragon Pavilion in Kaifeng, Yin Dynasty Ruins in Anyang, etc.
Zhengzhou Annec mainly produces refractories for blast furnace, hot blast stove, torpedo tank, ladle, etc. and provides professional EPC service for blast furnace and hot blast stove. We have acquired some key technology that could achieve high blast temperature, long campaign and low energy consumption of hot blast stove.
Zhengzhou Annec has four branches equipped with seven production lines that are capable of producing 150,000 tons of refractories each year. The four factories are Fuliang, Fuhua, Fugang and Fubao. We also have an affiliated Annec (Beijing) Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., and a provincial enterprise technology center. Our annual sales revenue reached 800 million RMB in 2011.
As one of the deputies to people's congress of Zhengzhou city, our Chairman Li Fuchao has won numerous honors, such as "Henan Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs", "Henan Top Ten Technological Innovative Talents", "Henan Advanced Persons for Efforts in Energy Conservation", etc.
Zhengzhou Annec has established a complete quality assurance system. We have been certified by an array of ISO standards, such as the quality management system ISO9001-2008, the environmental management system ISO14001:2004 and occupational health and safety management system GB/T24001:2001. We have a complete set of advanced measuring instruments and testing facilities. As a result, we have been evaluated as "Henan Eligible Enterprise for Quality Inspection" and "Provincial Enterprise Technology Center".
We have a research and development team committed to thermal engineering and R&D of materials. The team consists of 13 national experts headed by national engineering design master Wu Qichang, our chief technology officer, and refractories doctoral supervisor Sun Gengchen.
We have maintained sustainable and enjoyable cooperation with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., Sinosteel Engineering Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., and subsidiaries of China Metallurgical Group Corporation, such as MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited and MCC CISDI. Some new and unique products developed by us can meet the latest development of the ferrous metallurgy and have been exported worldwide to India, Turkey, South Korea, Germany, Japan, America, etc.
We have maintained cooperation with University of Science and Technology Beijing, MCC Capital Engineering & Research Incorporation Limited, and Shougang International Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., we have set up the world's first integrated laboratory of CFD numerical simulation test, cold-state and hot-state simulation tests for Top-combustion hot blast stoves.
Our company has obtained 18 national patents, such as 37-hole checkers, 61-hole checkers, perforated wave-shaped cell-type checker brick, stressless outlet structure, swirl-type top-combustion hot blast stove burner, dual-channel vortex ceramic burner, reform from ball-type stove to top-combustion stove, reform of hot blast stove from internal-combustion to top-combustion, reform of hot blast stove from external-combustion to top-combustion, etc.